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Sound boards in my DCIs?! Boooooooooooooo! The pit is too loud! Rable rable rable. A couple years pass. Controlling a sound board so that the pit sound doesn't dominate?! Boooooooooooooooooo rable rable rable! Oh fans...............

I'm attending more shows then I have in the past, so I selected that option. But I'd never say no to a cheaper ticket or more income. lol

I use a Steve Brubaker OUTLAW signature dot book.

Canon Rebel DSLR. As the name implies it's just a digital version of an SLR cam. The quality is great and it will last you years and years if properly cared for. Be prepared to spend a few hundred on basic setup plus a lens or two. Like a telephoto and a wide angle. Or, for a couple hundred bucks you can get a decent point and shoot. Canon Power Shot series are just fine. Best of luck.

Because it's pioneer. They could use any kind of help to get out of perpetual last place.

F*** / facepalm

At least my wasn't as blatantly incorrect.

You are blind. Sorry. I feel really bad for the band you "judge" because you continue to show how very little you know about the modern activity. Transitions are better and more difficult then ever. Anyone can clean, lets say, a 16 count move at an 8 to 5 step size with the met at 160 over the course of an entire summer.

Fixed. Secondly: How else does a vs. match work? You compliment both sides? lol

2010 is cleaner and more complex then anything you could have dreamed of marching in 1980. I see band that can only rehearse 8 hour a week march cleaner, more complicated drill then MANY 1980's corps. Guess at 20 years the rose tint is getting pretty dark, eh?

It's more about what's feasible. Having to pay so much more money for bus loads of clarinets, saxes and flutes? I don't think so. It just doesn't make much sense, to me. Seems woodwinds would be best used as color instruments from the pit.

THE IRON STABLE is a lie. Inside joke. Disregard.

Edit. I'm not even gonna bother.

I have a feeling that T-shirts will be the item of the summer to buy.

I hope it happens tomorrow and I hope they call it Drum Corps if for no other reason just to P*** off all you dinos. But it's not going to happen. A woodwind instrument in the pit? Sure. A flute line? lol no.

What © trouble can a corps get into for anon coming on a board and saying "hey corps X might play ________."?

Ya, the second paragraph was more a general thing and not a direct response. Should've made that more clear.

For instance, we have two rival show titles for the Bluecoats. A Brave New World vs. The Iron Stable. Either way we get to talk about something other then the same ol same ol.

If by interesting then you mean superior to DCP. Then yes. Hooray for getting to post what you actually want to say! Rumors and leaked info make the off season far more interesting. Any press is good press. Screw the "respect the corps announcement" crowd. If they didn't want it leaked they would've been more careful with the information.

I am an avid fan of marching band, but even I grow tired of mediocre sounding college bands playing way to loud. If you're from that school and are privy to the inside jokes (see "traditions) then you love it and I'm sure you'd love to see more of your band. Otherwise it is, in fact, pretty boring.

Or maybe they think your idea is just......... It's drum corps. Stop thinking so hard. You're going to hurt yourself. Or at least just look pedantic on a Jeff Goldblum level. And no one really wants to talk to that guy. They never get a word in edge wise, and when they do it's met with a condescending "no i'm still right". Wait....could that be, perhaps, why no one is seriously responding to the OP? hmmmmmmmm..............

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lol you're funny! Oh....you were serious? Now I just feel bad for you.